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Originally Posted by Graham
Such justification would be self-deception and a failure to live up the moral code, but the same argument could be applied to anyone who used a sacred text to justify an action thought immoral by others.
I could argue though, that through having to continually question his own moral code, an atheist might be less likely to do this.
Graham
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I'm not so sure about that. Atheism is like building your city on a swamp... Basically you've got to continually resupport those skyscrapers, however your never gonna stop sinking. Atheism must require a lot of mental energy.. whereas us religious types got time to just sit back and enjoy the sun.
If you defined your moral code as existing in order to help yourself and maybe a few other people then breaking those morals wouldn't matter if its only going to affect those outside of your remit. Who cares about them. This is clan mentality.